Friday, February 28, 2003 - 12:17 p.m.
Stuff in February:
--Dark Chronicle: I haven't been this hooked on a RPG for a long time...
--Tokimeki Memorial GS: I bought this game in July, postponed playing it because of Gensui III.
--The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold): Some parts were tedious, but it was good.
--The Minds of Billy Milligan (Daniel Keyes): Really interesting.
--Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri): I like cross-cultural stories.
--The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: I like dorky Sam.
--Tofu salad: I'm trying to change my lifestyle.
--Getting up early: As above.
Some pictures:
I went to a mall in Nakano, and found a lobster catcher in an arcade. It's like those UFO catchers where you try to grab stuffed animals or bags of candy with mechanical claws... except with this game machine, you try to pick up live lobsters. So what are you supposed to do with a lobster if you get one? ...eat it, I guess. It said "Please be sure to COOK before eating" on a piece of paper taped to the machine...
I said hi to a Laputian robot at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. I went with Ryuuen-chan and two other Ghibli friends, so we had a blast. The museum was so cute and all the animation stuff was cool... And they even had a Cat Bus! And as I said before, my favorite Ghibli film is Laputa, so the short film about the airplanes and flying technology in that movie was the best thing in the museum.
Wednesday, February 4, 2003 - 01:18 a.m.
Today, when my (female) friend and I were waiting to board an elevator, a man stepped aside and said, "Go ahead." The gentleman pressed the button for us and even held the door of the elevator open as we got off. We were impressed by this seemingly everyday occurance... because we are in Japan and this kind of thing is not an everyday occurance in this country. Wow.
Monday, February 3, 2003 - 10:20 p.m.
A story from work II (which only JUMP fans would appreciate):
During my kid's class, a little kindergartener rushed up to the front of the classroom and grabbed a small magnet from the whiteboard. She stuck the round black magnet between her index and middle finger and said to me, "Go! Go!" Unable to fathom what she was trying to say, I asked, "Go?" and the little girl replied, "HIKARU NO GO!!!!"
Speaking of go, a couple years ago when I was volunteering at a weekend Japanese school in San Gabriel, a little boy came up to me and thrust out his right hand and said, "Present!" I put my hand out and he dropped a white go stone on my palm and ran off. ...I still don't understand why he gave me a go stone.
I don't know how to play go.
Sunday, February 2, 2003 - 07:11 p.m.
A story from work:
One of my female co-workers (Australian) saw another female co-worker (Japanese) bend over to pull out a file from a low cabinet, and slapped her on the bottom.
Co-worker A: Your butt's stickin' out!!
Co-worker B: I know! Dekai desho!!
Co-worker A: (to me) What'd she say?
Before I could say anything, my co-worker said,
"I said, I have a BIG DICK!!"
And of course, we were all laughing while she, flustered, tried to correct herself, "Chigauchigauchigau!!! No! BUTT!!"
It seems like the only things I talk about in this blog are penis-related stories... ~_~;
